His life went through various pitches of tragedy and sacrifice alternately. After everything was decided, he would look at Karna, “What shall we do?” Karna could very easily have turned the direction of the whole story. For Duryodhana, it did not matter what Shakuni said or did, it was Karna’s advice which always sealed the deal. He was a great human being and showed his greatness in different situations, but because of this bitterness, in many ways it was he who turned everything wrong. This bitterness made a wonderful human being into such a nasty and ugly character in the Mahabharata. All the time, he nourished bitterness within himself about his so-called low birth. Throughout his life he complained about this. Wherever he went, people referred to him as a suta or “low-born” because of his ambitions. He was always unhappy and miserable because he could not come to terms with what he was being labeled as. Is it not a wonderful thing? But no, he did not give up his resentment. A child who is found floating on the water grows up to become a king. If you look at his life, the fact of it is that he was a charioteer’s son who became a king. Duryodhana held him dear and took advice from him. In many ways he was also a big king’s sidekick. He got many things and was given a position and place in the palace. Out of his competence and the will of fate, he became Angaraja – the king of Anga. “That is one person who loved me for who I am,” he says. He always remembered how much his mother loved him. His foster parents, Radha and Athiratha, loved him immensely and brought him up very well, the way they knew. But the people who brought him up, did so with utmost love. He was resentful because he did not know whose child he was. He was a man with a phenomenal sense of integrity and generosity but all this was lost. His bitterness took him into a disastrous life story. He was a wonderful human being gone totally bad because he invested in bitterness. Sadhguru: In India, for people who are conversant with the Mahabharata, there is a whole culture where Karna is a kind of anti-hero. In this article, Sadhguru looks at the basis of his undoing – his bitterness.
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